Monday, June 20, 2011

More Tribune Nonsense

What's the difference between these two stories?

Story #1 -The groups predict the cost of wrongful convictions will rise because 16 civil lawsuits filed by exonerated individuals still need to be settled or go to trial, including some by men who allege torture by officers under a decorated former Chicago police lieutenant.

Former Lt. Jon Burge was convicted last year of federal perjury and obstruction of justice charges for lying about torture. Suspects for decades had alleged that Burge and his officers tortured them into confessing to crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder.

Burge reported to prison in March to begin serving a 4½-year sentence. He was fired from the Chicago Police Department in 1993 over the alleged mistreatment of a suspect, but he never was criminally charged in that case or any involving alleged mistreatment.

Story #2 - Some of the last words Adelina Najera spoke to her 16-year-old son Freddy were warnings that he shouldn't stay out late with friends.

Just hours later, however, Freddy Najera was one of three teens killed in a Prospect Heights crash that ripped the car in two. A fourth passenger in the car – an 18-year-old man – was hospitalized and is expected to survive, according to police.

As her niece translated from Spanish. Adelina Najera said today that she asked Freddy around 10:30 p.m. not to leave their apartment with his friend, who was over for the night. But after she went to sleep, the teens did leave the apartment and were picked up by the two girls who were also involved in the crash, she said.

Story #1 is about taxpayers paying out damages for wrongful convictions, to the tune of $214 million so far. Burge plays a prominent role in the story.

Story #2 is about four teens out joyriding in a stolen car at 3:30 AM, wrecking and killing three of them.

We'll give you two guesses about which one the Tribune has the comment section open for, and the first guess doesn't count. Remember, only one story is worth reader input. Colonel McCormick is spinning in his grave.

32 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe if the city would go to trial with these cases involving Burge they would find that most of them are bullshit. Anyone can claim they were abused. How do you prove that when it happened so long ago. All of these criminals say they are innocent and never did any crimes. Really. The only folks making out on these bogus cases are the lawyers. They have made millions milking the system.

I am very grateful that the federal lawsuit against me and the department was tossed out of court this month. Never got to trial. Thanks to the federal judge who saw this bullshit suit for what it was and dismissed the suit.

Has anyone ever done the simple math on how many people claim Burge did his torture to. He would have be a super hero to work the number of hours just to torture that many people. What would be the ratio of torture per person. Than break it down to how many hours did he ACTUALLY WORK? Seems that he would have to set up some kind of a proccessing line for the torture like the old stock yards companies. Do you think that something that big wouldn't be noticed by the lawyers at the time it occurred? It just seems to me to be totally bogus and no one thats paying for this gives a shit! Lawyers bullshitting other lawyers.....

"Wrongfully convicted" does not mean "innocent". It means they missed a lawyer trick or technicality to game the system. I wish people understood that.

There was a story last week about the professor that ran the "Innocence Project". They said his employment with the university was terminated over some illegal things done to exonerate these 'innocent' convicts. I wonder if offering his female student as a 'treat' to one of these convicts had anything to do with it.

There are no Richard Kimballs in jail. None, it is a fantasy the lawyers want you to believe.

I particularly like how attorney Russell Ainsworth is identified as being from the touchy feely "Exhoneration Project". forgive me, but that's bullsh*t.

Russell Ainsworth is from Loevy & Loevy, and their aim here is to make as much money as possible of the 'exhonerated'. It's amazing how the press, which prides itself on "keeping 'em honest" never notes the possible biases of lawyers.

Don’t forget the Tribune broken the story on Rod Blagojevich wiretap, thereby tipping off Blago that his phones were being tapped and stopping an on going investigation into the crooked Illinois and Chicago Democratic machine that could have reach all the way to the White House. In case you forgot here it is- http://gawker.com/5109844/how-the-chicago-trib-fumbled-its-blago-scoop

"The Chicago Tribune is a disappointment. I cancelled my subscription awhile back.

"What used to be a respected source of news is a waste of money today."

--6/20/2011 02:39:00 AM

The twentysomethings over at the Tribune today can simply have no idea of the contempt in which they are held by someone who grew up with the newspaper -- someone for whom each Sunday paper was a big event, someone who used to save the Sunday supplement magazines because they really were keepsakes sometimes.

That was a long time ago.

Ten years ago, I was still buying a Tribune once a week on Thursday to see some classified ads. Now that those ads have dwindled from 150 per week down to almost nothing, I have no reason to even go to the web site, let alone buy anything.

Probably the next step will be to eliminate the Tribune, fire as many people as possible, and just dump those free papers out on the corner -- Exito and the other English one with the stupid red ball on the box -- whatever this crap is called.

OK with me.

I am reminded here of a list of signs to look for in a dying civilization -- one went like this.

"The emphasis on the people to be pleased moves down from the upper class, to the middle class, to the lowest class."

The Fibune used to be a well-respected conservative newspaper. It has turned into a liberal, idiotic, self-serving piece of trash. I too cancelled my subscription when they started writing the boohoo stories on the illegals. I was waiting for an investigative piece on all the illegals who are in Cook County and the IDOC for murder, agg assault, sex crimes, etc. How many illegals killed innocent pedestrians while driving w/out a license or DUI? You don't see pieces like that.....I refuse to read their trash, even on the net. I'd rather buy the Nat'l Enquirer before I read the Trib.

And MORE Tribune lies- retired CPD officer Owsley was convicted of financial exploitation from an elderly person last week. The trial was a farce with political paybacks being used. The Trib put their head line to read "probation for cop who cheated man out of a million dollars". Sounds heinous and bad doesnt it? There is one small problem however. This cop did not take anything from this man. NO money,property, not a nickel. Of course the case is being appealed and I hope he wins. As for the rag papers I hope a libel case is filed against the Trib. And the Sun slime is no better with their police hating police reporter.